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tap-lash Now dial.|ˈtæplæʃ|
Also 7 -lush.
[f. tap n.1 + lash v.1]
1. The ‘lashings’ or washings of casks or glasses; dregs or refuse of liquor; very weak or stale beer.
1623J. Taylor (Water P.) Disc. by Sea B vij, To murder men with drinking, with such a deale of complementall oratory, As, off with your Cup, winde vp your bottome, vp with your taplash, and many more eloquent phrases. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 597 Very tap⁓lash; dead drink. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 118 Liquors of all denominations from champagne to humble tap-lash. 1828Craven Gloss., Tap-lash, thick small beer; poor, vapid liquor of any kind.
fig.1672Marvell Reh. Transp. I. 227 This the Tap-lash of what he said. 1769Colman Prose Sev. Occas. (1787) III. 157 Thou..draw'st the taplash of another's brains.
b. attrib. or adj.
1642in J. B. Williams Eng. Journalism (1908) 36 They have filled the City..with the fruits of their taplush inventions. 1673Bp. S. Parker Repr. Reh. Transp. 197 Bandied up and down by the School-men in their taplash disputes. 1682Hickeringill Mushroom Wks. 1716 II. 366 Stale Taplash droppings, old and sowr.
†2. Applied contemptuously to a publican. Obs.
c1648Eng. Ballad, ‘No Money, No Friend’ (Farmer), Each Taplach..would cringe and bow, and swear to be My Servant to Eternity. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 320 Thus is it not evident Tap-lashes don't thrive? |